Art has been my passion since my childhood days. In recent few years, this passion in me gave birth to a new platform launched by me “Terramagic” after investing more time and learning terracotta art and jewellery making.
Due to the current situation, we couldn’t procure raw materials often and were not able to move our business in the same manner as how we used to do it before Pandemic. This gave me a boost to continue my learning the art forms.
Being an avid learner and seeker, back of my mind I always had this thirst to venture more about art and its various forms. For an artist, anything that allows him to express his thoughts is always a “Art”. I started exploring on my own and learnt various folk arts like kalamkari, Lippan, Madhubani and Warli.
Each art form mentioned above is unique in its own way and requires the same amount of dedication, patience and skill. Through this blog, I would like to share my experience and learning about Warli and why it caught my interest.
Warli art is created by tribal people from the North Sahayadri Range, Maharashtra. This art is practiced in Maharashtra till date. This art has been a great possession and intellectual property of people since generations. It symbolizes different elements of nature and are generally sedimentary wall paintings consisting of geometric shapes. What interests me is the simple pictorial language of this art. These paintings or art is usually created on the inner walls of the village huts/houses. Just imagine the simplicity and creativity! With just few materials, like, brick red colour for background, rice flour, water & gum to create the white pigment and bamboo sticks to create the art, a beautiful art is manifested.
It is believed that Warli art is painted in the houses to celebrate special occasions. Most popular theme in Warli art is the special chain of humans or animals drawn around the central motifs. According to the tribal sect, this symbolizes that life is an eternal journey and it has no beginning or end.
My interest in this art further grew with Catterfly, who took us through the intricacies involved in this art and gave us a chance to learn from renowned artist Mr. Sanjay Ji. On account of Labor’s Day, to mark the endless efforts, commitment and hard work of the working group and laborers, a Warli art was created by depicting ants in the below painting. I would like to extend my gratitude to Catterfly team and Mr. Sanjay ji for keeping all of us engaged in this learning process and allowing us to transform ourselves into meditative mood.
With this, I would like to end by saying that the love and interest for the art in me will never fade and I will continue to explore them, as I strongly believe that creativity is taking the best skills and techniques from experts around you and improving upon them. Happy learning! Stay tuned for more!
